Showing posts with label Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theatre. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School Art & Soul performance showcase to benefit “Power House for Kids” child advocacy center

Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School’s Rearden Theatre will be the scene of a spectacular arts extravaganza on Friday, May 15 to benefit FAITH’s Power House for Kids child advocacy center located in Toccoa. The benefit will feature a variety of music, dance, theatre, visual and industrial arts and include the best of both RGNS student and faculty talent.

Tickets for the Art & Soul benefit are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Kids under 5 will be admitted free. Tickets soon will be available at the Rabun, Habersham, and Stephens County Chambers of Commerce, the FAITH Thrift Store in downtown Clayton, and at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School bookstore. Doors will open at 6:30 PM on Friday, May 15 for the showcase.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

"Crimes of the Heart" opens March 27

The North Georgia Community Players presents the play, "CRIMES OF THE HEART," a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Beth Henley, March 27-29 and again April 3.5. Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday matinees are at 3:00 p.m.

It is a rare and enjoyable mix of adult comedy and melodramatic situations. Tickets for the show are $10 adults, $5 for children 11 and under. For ticket information, please call (706) 212-2500, e-mail: ngcptickets@windstream.net, or visit the website www.ngcommunityplayers.com

The Dillard Playhouse Theatre is located @ 892 Franklin Street, off #441 N (turn on Henry Dillard St., @ "The Dillard House" restaurant sign.)

Friday, February 20, 2009

Cirque: Baggio opens at RGNS

Follow the journey of a clown in Rabun Gap Nacoochee School's original production entitled Cirque: Baggio. It is modeled after the very popular international Cirque du Soleil. This is the school's eighth Cirque-style production.

A cast of 5o students perform in a high energy show combining arobatics, gymnastics, theatre, dance, juggling and character acting and using a variety of apparatus including trapeze, silks, lyra, net, plies and rola rola.

The show opened Thursday evening to a packed house in the Rearden Theater on the RGNS campus. Performances are tonight at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Performances are nearly always sold out, so call ahead to purchase tickets (706) 746-7716. Tickets for adults are $12. Students, children and senior citizens tickets are $8.